March Holidays Rehearsal Day 2!! =D

Time: 8.30am - 1pm.
Venue: Church of the good Shepard & Matthew's place!!
Attendance: FULL!! =D

Agenda for the day. =)
(not in sequence)

• Rehearsals;
• In-depth Rehearsals;
• FURTHER IN-DEPTH Rehearsals;
• Directorial Vision;
• Lightings.

Mattie reached Queenstown at exactly 8.30!! Ruth arrived shortly thereafter. (WAHAHAAA STILL LATE.) Talk about being late. PAPA ARRIVED SO MUCH LATER. We set off to COGS (Church of the Good Shepard). There MATTIE said he's scared of Chingying. D; "Ehh! I'm not that late lorh.. Like 2 minutes only can!!" PAPA protested. "Naughty PAPA."

We wondered where we were supposed to rehearse, and alas! We saw the playground!! =D AND PAPA LEAPED FOR JOY FIRST. Followed by the rest. =p We made our way, slowly, until we saw the lock on the gate... "noooooooooooooo!!!!" - the two others yelled. I say "awww..." So we took the long way that turned out to be 1 minute. VERY FAR LEH!!!! D;

We leaped up the playground and discussed what we wanna do today. This was how it went. "Hey! Have you memorized your lines??"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"I memorized some..."
"Got effort put into it okay!"
"What are we gonna do today?!"
Then we discussed lightings.
And Mattie drew the nice lighting diagram of the blackbox. =)
And we had a detailed discussion about the positioning and the movement. Will type out more when we actually rehearse properly in the blackbox. =D
Please await, eagerly. =)

Then we moved inside. Then I thought of the theme music and started towards the piano and played very emo song. SO NICE, ruth says. "IT'S NOT A SONG!!!" Mattie's exclaimed.
"Oh. Tune!" Ruth interupted.
Then we decided on the emo thingy for our theme. SET!! D; Mattie will work on it. GOOD LUCK!!! =( "Make it as emo as possible, "says PAPA. Then we moved on into another room with SOFA!! And we felt like giants. =D Cos' everything was just SO SMALL!!! We shifted the furniture around the room to facilitate our movements. Got the positioning wrong. No surprise. =0 Everybody was confused.

Before we started to rehearse, we found out that PAPA conversation was NOT UP TO STANDARD. =( So we took 4 Takes of it (WHAT THE HELL!) until PAPA was happy. Finally. Dx
Rehearsal started.
With scene ONE!! =D
Comments: PAPA still smiling. That's a NONO!!! Somehow he didn't want to say some words. "He didn't want to swear in church." PAPA exclaimed. Today was less emotions for the first scene than other days. But it was good. PAPA memorized his script. YAY!!! =D

Scene 2!! D;
Comments: Badly done. Dx PAPA and Ruth were screaming, "MORE EMOTIONS!!!" Over and over again. Matt got really sad. =( Emo. STRESSED!! D; Then we practised with MATTIE over every lines so that he could get it right and we also wanted to see him move more on stage and not be so tensed and to display more Pa-si-ons. D; More gestures would be better for the "with inspiration" part. But at the end, he did it better than when he started. GOOD JOB!!! =D
"Much much better!!" Exclaimed PAPA.

On to SCENE 3!! =D (SO EXCITING!!)
Comments: Took a long long long long time discussing movements and how Ruth should fall (don't scared ruth!). And then, practised saying lines with more emotions. And figuring out the emotions of the character at every line. STRESSSSSSSSSSSSED and hungryyyyyyyyyyyyy... We didn't eat. Boohoooo!!!! As usual. =( PAPA MUST PRACTISE KICKING THE RABBIT AND WE ALL MUST BE VERY COMFORTABLE WITH THE POSITIONING BECAUSE WE ARE ALWAYS AT DIFFERENT POSITIONS AND THIS IS VERY AWKWARD WHEN SEEN BY AUDIENCE!! We'll work on it. D;
So we practised somemore, until like 1115h, then we went BUBBLING!!

BUT FIRST!! We did the conclusions for Mattie. =) As usual, need more inspiration. But the last part was nice and emotional. "I like!" Ruth said. Satisfied, we went BUBBLING!! PAPA ordered Sour plum and Matt ordered Rock Melon. Unfortunately, Ruth went to 7 eleven instead and got herself a bottle of F&N orange. =)
YAY US!!

Waited for the bus to go to Mattie's house. =D
Commented that it was so far away from civilisation. Ruth complained about the buses. "HOW CAN YOU LIVE HERE?!"

We waited for Matt's computer to load. While waiting for Matt's computer to load, we did the geography quiz on Matt's Graphic Calculator and we got 90%!! NEW HIGH SCORE!! YAY us!! "HAH GEOGRAPHY!" Take that!! xD

So now the computer's loaded. We typed this. WAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!
Happy reading!!! =D

Agenda for next meeting,

• Full-on rehearsal with as many props we can bring on monday. D;
• Will try to get the blackbox to confirm the lightings and positionings.
• And to get used to the environment.
• And seriously memorize the script.
• Please be reminded, clothes, week 2.
• We'll do hotseat next week!!
• We'll force other groups to comment on our play and give constructive criticism.
• Hopefully, next meeting's on monday at 4pm! Meet at Cafe first. Don't be late.

Debrief.
Director: Good job guys, we improved a lot today. =) STOP SMILING PAPA!!!!
Ruth: Today's rehearsal was more organized, I think. In terms of the play itself and I think that if we put in more effort, we can do better. YAY!!! Good Job People!! Lets work on our emotions!
Matt: They stole my lines. So TADA!!! =D

Thank God they didn't comment on my you-know.. D;

Signing off,
the-great-cows!! =D
XOXO,
you know you love us. x)